For what it worth I just did a fresh install of Ubuntu 10.04 and it appears to behave with the version of open-vm-tools package coming from Ubuntu repositories. The tools status in VI client is shown as "Unmanaged" but this is as it should be.
On Wednesday, July 28, 2010 11:43:29 am Marcelo Vanzin wrote: > Hi Dyonisius, > > Is there any specific reason why you're not running the Tools packages from > VMware? The versions included in distros are currently unsupported and > mostly untested by VMware... > > About your specific question, there's very little to go on here to diagnose > the problem. Having logs would help (vmware.log and hostd logs from your > host), as would knowing the exact status shown for Tools in the vSphere > client UI. > > On 07/28/2010 03:47 AM, Dyonisius Visser wrote: > > This occurs with all Ubuntu VMs, 8.04 LTS and 10.04 LTS. > > The tools on my 8.04 VMS are a bit hacky, so I don't mind that. > > The tools on the 10.04 boxes are the open-vm-tools included with > > Ubuntu, for use with dkms. > > They do compile fine, and even the dkms automatic module build after > > recent kernel upgrades works great. -- Dmitry ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Palm PDK Hot Apps Program offers developers who use the Plug-In Development Kit to bring their C/C++ apps to Palm for a share of $1 Million in cash or HP Products. Visit us here for more details: http://p.sf.net/sfu/dev2dev-palm _______________________________________________ open-vm-tools-discuss mailing list open-vm-tools-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/open-vm-tools-discuss
